Janice Combs, disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ mother, is breaking her silence about the explosive, newly-released Netflix documentary about her son. And she’s clearing the air on one of the most shocking revelations.
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In part one of the four-part documentary, Kirk Burrowes (co-founder of Bad Boy Entertainment) alleged that after the tragic 1991 City College of New York (CCNY) celebrity charity basketball game— that left nine people dead following a stampede— Diddy and his mom got into a heated discussion. According to Burrowes, Diddy allegedly slapped his mother while she was trying to convince him to reevaluate his life choices due to the severity of the incident.
Later on in the documentary, another witness alleges Diddy used to get beatings regularly by his mother growing up, going so far as to allude that the discipline was teetering the line of being abusive. The music producer would later confirm that he did get whooped as a child but chalked it up to his mother “preparing” him for the real world and how it would treat him as an adult.
Well, after getting wind of the allegations, Janice decided enough was enough, releasing an official statement to Deadline on Sunday (Dec. 7) in an attempt to set the record straight.
“I am writing this statement to correct some of the lies presented in the Netflix, ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning,’” she wrote. “These inaccuracies regarding my son Sean’s upbringing and family life is intentionally done to mislead viewers and further harm our reputation.”
She went on to say that the talk of Diddy slapping her after the CCNY event were “patently false” and “inaccurate,” describing the incident as a “very sad day for all of us.” She also claimed that Burrowes’ allegation was a “wrong, outrageous, and past offensive” attempt at pushing a false narrative so that he could claim a stake in Bad Boy Records.
As far as potentially being abusive to Diddy during his rearing, Janice denied those accusations too, instead reminding people that she was a single mother who “raised Sean with love and hard work, not abuse.”
Combatting the abuse allegations, Janice said in part: “To the contrary, I loved and nurtured Sean. My memories of Sean growing up are one of a respectful and diligent child and teenager. Sean has always been an industrious, goal oriented over achiever.”
Additionally, Diddy’s spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer preemptively denied any wrongdoing on Janice’s behalf towards her son one day before the Netflix series came out.
“We’re not going to comment on individual claims being repeated in the documentary,” Engelmayer said in a statement to PEOPLE. “Many of the people featured have longstanding personal grievances, financial motives, or credibility issues that have been documented for years.”
She continued: “Several of these stories have already been addressed in court filings, and others were never raised in any legal forum because they’re simply not true. The project was built around a one-sided narrative led by a publicly admitted adversary, and it repeats allegations without context, evidence, or verification.”
Diddy’s legal team has also sent a cease-and-desist to Netflix in an attempt to try to have the documentary removed, citing the use of unauthorized footage and more.
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